Citation

Bennett J, Foster P. Pol. Pract. Health Saf. 2005; 3(2): 77-90.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (Great Britain))

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Abstract

Against a backcloth of legislation and a developing culture of compensation for the effects of accidents and industrial disease, managers are increasingly concerned about how better to assess and hence to improve the effectiveness of occupational safety and health management. Traditional 'trailing' indicators such as accident rate, incident rate, industrial disease incidence or compensation payments only measure occupational safety and health outputs, and there is interest, for example in the international mining industry, in the use of 'leading' indicators to enable control of the processes that lead to these events. This paper reviews work in the field, identifies and groups potential leading indicators, and then assembles a set of practical key leading indicators and objectives that draw on many of the identified indicator characteristics.